First US Tour Date: Seattle

Ticketmaster has a listing for the first US tour date: the WaMu Theater in Seattle on July 10th.

Thanks to steve, Jason Scott, Rami, and filmbuff83 for being the first folks to send this in.

Get Access To Presale Tickets With Advance Purchase Of AATS From iTunes

Update: A new ToriAmos.com newsletter came out the morning of April 15th announcing the iTunes pre-order information and included an additional tidbit: “Oscar’s Theme,” the bonus track to be included with the UK release of the album, will also be included with the US iTunes release.

iTunes has posted a list of some US cities for the upcoming tour. (You can also purchase “Welcome To England” at the US iTunes store now.)

Tori Amos iTunes Preorder

Preorder Abnormally Attracted to Sin on iTunes starting April 14 and get a special password to purchase concert tickets on Ticketmaster.com before the general public!

Plus, you’ll get to download the single “Welcome to England” right away!

Place your preorder before this offer ends May 19 at midnight.

Tori Amos will perform in the following cities:
Seattle, WA
Portland, OR
Oakland, CA
San Diego, CA
Los Angeles, CA
Phoenix, CA
Denver, CO
Dallas, TX
Austin, TX
Atlanta, GA
Washington D.C.
Chicago, IL
Indianapolis, IN
Detroit, MI
New York, NY
Boston, MA
Philadelphia, PA

Specific dates and venues will be announced in the coming weeks along with additional cities.

When you preorder the album, you’ll receive an email containing a unique password for a pre-sale that will run from 10am May 28th until 10pm May 29th. This offer ends at midnight on May 19th (so, 11:59pm on May 18th).

Thanks bean, Mark, Ethan Cougill, and everyone else who sent this in.

Abnormally Attracted To Sin Clips On iTunes

Oh, the joys of having one’s Internet connection down all day…

Elliot Lear discovered there are clips for the bonus track edition of AATS up on iTunes.

Wow. Wow, wow, wow. Haunting, powerful, dark. If the clips are a good indication, this album is going to blow us all out of the water. Just … wow.

Acoustically Attracted to Sin Ticket Clarification

Rich contacted the Savoy Theatre box office and reports that they will not be taking ticket orders for the Acoustically Attracted to Sin concert over the phone. So, I guess we misunderstood what ToriAmos.com and Everything Tori meant by “personal callers” when they said that tickets would be available from the box office starting at 10:00 AM on Friday.

So, it looks like you were planning on getting them from the box office, you’ll have to go there in person.

Sorry for any confusion and thanks to Rich for checking on that!

RollingStone.com Article (April 2, 2009)

I wanna give people something that says my favorite thing: If it’s too loud, turn it up. I wanna give people creative worlds to walk into so that they are getting a sensory overload. You give people treasures, not ‘How can I cut all the costs?’

So says Tori in an article that popped up on RollingStone.com’s Rock & Roll Daily. Read on for the rest or check it out on their site.

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Matt Chamberlain: Abnormally Attracted to The Studio

Update: The comment about not touring with Tori has been removed from Matt’s site. Maybe he was lured back into the fold by the promise of doingity-doing? Maybe it was an April Fool’s joke? Or maybe he’s decided to keep his decision to himself.

Tori’s regular session and touring drummer Matt Chamberlain updated his website on March 31st and indicated that he will NOT be touring with Tori this year:

Just got home from a really fun week of traveling and recording. I plan on doing as much music here in my home studio as possible this year.I should have a page on this site up soon listing all the gear and options for having me track drums for projects. My friend and great bass player Kaveh Rastegar will be up here this week for some playing and recording for a project we have going on..In other news, i will not be touring with Tori Amos this year due to prior engagements.

How, exactly, this will shake out during the upcoming tour which, according to Tori, was supposed to be the trio of her, Matt and Jon Evans, remains to be seen…

Thanks to Darrell and steven for bringing this to our attention.

New Promotional Photos Surface...

Marvin had alerted us that some new promotional photographs of Tori taken by Lucas Jackson for Reuters were floating around and, while doing a quick search for that mystery article at HereInMyHead, I stumbled across them myself on Yahoo. Enjoy!

HereInMyHead Scoops Us All

If you were wondering who has the goods, HereInMyHead.com does!

Head over yonder and you’ll find an article of unknown origin which goes into great depth about the genesis of Abnormally Addicted to Sin as well as nearly all of the lyrics for the record.

We’re not sure how they got all that good stuff but we’re glad they did!

Update: the article appears to be either a translation of or the original English source for this piece at Songwriters.de. The NME article included the line about wanting, “to make a treasure, something people will value,” so I’m inclined to go with the latter. Our best guess is that this biography is leaked press kit material which has yet to hit the wires.

Nylon Interview (April 2, 2009)

As you develop enough life experience, you’ve got to value what that is. Youth does not have that. Youth has a lot but it doesn’t have any fucking wisdom. That’s not negative, it’s just like, I don’t have lineless skin, and you don’t get these lines without living.

Tori chats with Nylon’s Insider about The Light Princess musical, physical objects in the digital age, the perils of youth and … duets! Check it out on their site or read it below…

Thanks to meg for the link!

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Welcome to Welcome Video Premiere!

It seems that Midnight Eastern Time on April 3rd has come a little earlier than expected! The video for “Welcome to England” is now available for your streaming pleasure from Yahoo! Music:

Thanks to Clarissa for the tip!